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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "undefined behavior"?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:39:50 -0700
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
[...]
> During conversion, I got a Python error I don't remember seeing in the past:
>
> "TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not float"
>
> because division returns a float, and some of the array addressing was
> like this: nums[i/2].
[...]

C's "/" operator yields a result with the type of the operands (after
promotion to a common type).

Python's "/" operator yields a floating-point result.  For C-style
integer division, Python uses "//".  (Python 2 is more C-like.)

See https://docs.python.org/3/ or comp.lang.python, which is reasonably
active.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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